Cuts bite at Canadian opera
mainStaff and artists at the Vancouver Opera are facing demands for a two percent cut as the company struggles to balance its books.
The atmosphere is unhappy. Read here.
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A pity the super large (and increasingly larger) and wealthy Chinese population there appears to not be interested in opera, of the Western kind at least.
You have a breakdown by race of the audience there?
Touche!
Why have they all moved to Vancouver? Is HK/PRC full up or is it a tax issue? Must cause problems for locals buying. Thank goodness for Brexit.
They moved to Vancouver like millions of others from all around the world, because Canada is a free democratic nation. Just about everyone here is an immigrant. Yuja Wang left Beijing for Calgary to continue her musical education before moving on to New York.